Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, - I mean a necessary dialectical tool.

Before entering upon the subject-matter of these new memoirs, I must explain an hypothesis which will undoubtedly seem strange, but in the absence of which it …

In order better to grasp the thought of Malthus, let us translate it into philosophical propositions by stripping it of its rhetorical gloss: - '''Individual l…

Power, instrument of the collective force, created in society to serve as mediator between capital and labor, has become inescapably enchained to capital and d…

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all. The existence o…

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.